Facebook's VR headset is already delayed

After years of waiting, Facebook-owned Oculus VR finally opened
pre-order sales of its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset on
Wednesday morning.

There was a countdown and everything!

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And hey, if you wanna get in on the action, you can do so
right here: the
headset costs $600 and starts shipping in March.

But unfortunately, for many folks waiting patiently to drop
hundreds of bucks on the headset, the Oculus Shop crashed hard.
Instead of a headset pre-order page, many folks (ourselves
included) saw a blank screen.

Not that big of a deal unto itself, no doubt, but the longer it
took you to load the site, the longer your delivery date was
pushed out.

Things started with an expected March ship date:

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VR

But quickly got pushed further and further out. As of this
writing, there's an expected ship date of April for anyone
pre-ordering right now, and we're betting it'll get further and
further out the longer you wait.

So hey, if you're on the fence about dropping six large on a
sweet new VR headset — one that requires a bleeding edge,
relatively expensive PC to power it — the time
is now to make a decision one way or the other.
Lest you get left in the lurch.